SECTION
I
THE BACKGROUND OF CALL
By the mid-1980s, the Army leadership realized that despite the huge investment in the National Training Center (NTC), there was no method in place to capture the warfighting lessons coming from that training center in the midst of the unforgiving Mojave Desert. Concurrently, the aftermath of Operation URGENT FURY demonstrated that the services, including the Army, had no system to capture combat lessons either.
To fill that void, the Army created the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) in 1985 at Fort Leavenworth, KS, as part of what is now known as the Combined Arms Command - Training (CAC-T). CALL's initial publications focused on successful tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) from the NTC, as CONUS units vigorously trained for this desert combat.
The success in forging the Army heavy forces into a well- oiled combat training centers. The Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) for light forces at Fort Chaffee, AR, the Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC) at Hohenfels, GE, for USAREUR forces, and the Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) at Fort Leavenworth, KS, for division and corps commanders and staffs all came into existence.
As the combat training center concept grew and evolved, so did the focus of CALL.
Recognizing the need to quickly react in the event of combat, CALL developed a Wartime Army Lessons Learned Program (WALLP), so that CALL could also collect lessons from anywhere the Army executed a combat mission.
Thus, when Operation JUST CAUSE began in Panama in December, 1989, CALL personnel conducted the first combat collection effort under the auspices of WALLP, as spelled out in Army Regulation 11-33, Army Lessons Learned Program: Systems Development and Application, October, 1989, which charters CALL's mission to provide combat relevant lessons to the Total Army.
The most visible and recognizable result of CALL's mission is its newsletters and bulletins such as the one you are now reading. The CALL's mission is its newsletters and bulletins such as the one you are now reading. The CALL publications listed in the inside back cover of this newsletter should give you an idea of the scope and diversity of subjects covered since 1985. In addition to combat operations, CALL's mission now covers all the CTCs.
Now you need to get an idea of how the lessons learned system functions, and what your role can be in making the system work for the benefit of the Army.
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Introduction
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II - The Lessons Learned System and How it Functions
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